Everyone remembers their fist car. This is Tylar’s first car. 🙂
Devon Harrison Shot Put Video
Found this video on the Internet of my nephew, Devon, competing in a shot put invitational at the Ventura County Championships ’13.
Safer Nuclear Plant
I have no idea if this kid is correct, but his clarity of thought and the fact that he is the youngest person ever to create fusion at age 14, says we should listen to him. I also find it interesting that when he graduates High School in May, his first thought is to start up a company and build his idea.
Sonoma | Hopmunk Tavern
Hopmunk Tavern is a great little microbrewery in Sonoma. It is actually a part of Gordon Biersch’s chain of restaurants, but the structure and menu is designed for small towns like Sonoma, Sebastopol, and Novato.
Future Self Flying Car
Terrafugia has an interesting idea for a flying car that does not need the driver to know about how to fly. Sort of a Google car with autopilot.
Denver | Highland Tavern*
Saw Highland Tavern on Triple D (Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives), and really want to try it out because of their homemade pork rinds. Their homemade pastrami sandwich with a fried egg in it looks really good too.
Colonizing Mars
A Dutch company is looking to colonize Mars. It would be a one way ticket for those who are chosen, and in reality it’s no different from when the first explorers colonized North America.
First Time Test Flight For Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Engine
This is a huge step towards space tourism, and by ‘tourism’ I mean about a 10 – 15 minute flight above the earth’s atmosphere at the cost of $200k a pop, but it’s a start. The bonus on the flight is that you will see the curvature of Earth, and that would be pretty freaking cool. 🙂
Great Quotes Regarding Writing & Speaking
I’ve always found these quotes to be so true when it comes to writing and speaking. Wish more people either knew of these quotes or even better followed their philosophy.
“I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.”
— Blaise Pascal, Mathematician & Physicist
“Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.”
— Henry David Thoreau, Writer & Philosopher
“If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero, Philosopher & Statesman.
“You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.”
— Carl Friedrich Gauss, Mathematician & Scientist.
“It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
“The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.”
— François Fénelon, Writer & Theologian
“No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all-disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report…”
— Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States
“If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today. If you want only a five-minute speech, it will take me two weeks to prepare.”
— Mark Twain, Writer
Dad Gets Imaginative With Kids’ Sandwich Bags
Saw this video and thought it was pretty cool of this Dad to do this every day for his kids. It also didn’t hurt that the Dad is a graphic artist by trade.